JPH1063453A - Electronic message discrimination system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate misreading of an electronic message and prevent trouble arising between a travel agent and a tourist by discriminating the kinds of received electronic messages and printing the respective electronic messages out in different colors according to the discrimination results. SOLUTION: A personal computer 1 installed on a hotel side is able to print its process information on a color serial printer 2. It is connected to a host on a travel-agent side through a public telephone line by modems 3 and can send and receive electric messages. Then an electronic message delivered from the travel agent through the public telephone line is received by the modem 3, analyzed by the personal computer 1, and printed out on the serial printer 2. At this time, there are a reservation at a hotel and its change and cancel as the kinds of electronic messages, and a discriminating means discriminates them. To eliminate misreading of an electronic message, the colors to be printed are made different according to the electronic message kinds such as the reservation for a guest room and its change and cancel.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a message identification system, and more particularly to a message identification system in a message processing system which receives a transmission message from a host and prints it.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is an information processing system in which a reservation, change, or cancellation of a guest room, which is performed between a travel agency and each inn, is transmitted and received by so-called personal computer communication via a public line. In this case, the information processing device installed in the travel agency serves as a host, and the information processing device installed in each inn serves as a personal computer (personal computer).

[0003]

In such a system, examples of electronic message printing on a personal computer at the inn include:
Regardless of the type of message, all the messages are printed in the same color, generally black, and output. As described above, when all the messages are printed in a single black color, the output result is likely to be missed, and a trouble occurs between the inn and the travel agency, and furthermore, between the passenger and the passenger.

[0004] Here, with reference to Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-316278, there is disclosed a facsimile apparatus in which the color of a recording sheet is changed for each received data to make it easier to recognize the received text. That is, when there is an incoming call of the received data, the communication control unit notifies the system control unit of the incoming call, and the system control unit reads out the instruction number indicating the position of the sheet cassette to be used from the system memory, and The control information is written into the system memory, and the printout is performed by changing the instruction number of the position of the sheet cassette.

In the technology disclosed in this publication, a method of changing the color of recording paper for each received message is adopted. Therefore, a paper feed cassette corresponding to the number of recording colors is required on the printer side. Hardware becomes complicated and causes a cost increase. In addition, since the color of the recording paper is changed for each received message, not for the type of received message, no countermeasure is taken for each type of room reservation, change, cancellation, etc. Dropping is easy to occur, and trouble is inevitable.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a message identification system capable of preventing a trouble between a travel agency and a passenger by preventing the message from being missed.

[0007]

According to the present invention, there is provided a message identification system in a message processing system configured to receive and process a message transmitted from a host and print the received message. Means and a printing means for color-coding each message in accordance with the identification result and printing out the message.

The host is an information processing device installed in a travel agency, and the message processing system is a personal computer device connected to the information processing device via a public line and installed in an inn. The types of the messages are reservation, change, and cancellation messages of the inn, and the identification unit is configured to identify these types, and the printing unit performs color-coded printing for each type. It is characterized by having such a configuration.

In order to eliminate missed reading of electronic messages, colors to be printed are changed according to the electronic message type such as reservation, change, and cancellation of a guest room, and the colors are classified.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a system diagram of an information processing system to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied. In FIG. 1, a personal computer 1 installed at the inn can print its processing information by a color serial printer 2 and is connected to a host of a travel agency (not shown) via a public line via a modem 3. It is possible to send and receive telegrams. Incidentally, 21 indicates a printer cable, and 22 indicates an RS232C cable.

In such a configuration, a delivery message sent from a travel company via a public line is received by the modem 3,
The message is analyzed by the personal computer 1 and printed out by the serial printer 2. FIG. 2 shows an example of the format of the delivery message in this case.

This message has a message portion of up to 5000.
Up to bytes can be used, and by detecting EXT “03H” (indicating the end of a message), it is possible to regard the end of one frame. Also, a plurality of such frames may be transmitted at one time, so that “19H”, “00”
The end of the message can be considered by detecting "H", where "H" indicates that the message is in hexadecimal notation.

One frame can accommodate a plurality of telegrams within 5000 bytes.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In FIG. 3, first,
When the message is received, the end of the message is searched to confirm one message (step 31). In this case, since the message format is determined by the travel agency, the terminal is searched based on the format.

Based on the format for each travel company, the characters "reservation", "change", and "cancel" set at the specified positions in the format are searched from the retrieved message, and the message is retrieved. (Step 3)
2). The actual telegram is stored in the memory in the same image as the output image shown in FIG. 4, and the above-mentioned characters are searched for in the telegram to identify the telegram.

At this time, if the message is a reserved message (step 3
3) Instruct the printer to print in black (step 34). If it is a change message (step 35), it is blue (step 36), if it is a cancel message (step 3)
7), red (step 38), etc., and output in different colors according to the type of each message.

In this case, if the message does not apply to any of the reservation, change, and cancellation messages, an instruction is given to print in black, similar to a general printer output (step 39). Then, the next message processing is performed (step 4).
0), the above processing is executed until the end of the frame is found.

FIG. 4 shows an output image when printing is actually performed.
As shown in FIG. FIG. 5 shows the relationship between the color output to the printer and the message type.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, printing is performed in a color-coded manner according to the type of electronic message, so that reading errors are eliminated, troubles between the inn and the travel agency, and furthermore, troubles with the passengers occur. And the service can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system diagram to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a format example of a message.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an image diagram of message output.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a message type and a print color.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 PC 2 Serial printer 3 Modem

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A message identification system in a message processing system for receiving and printing a message sent from a host, comprising: identification means for identifying a type of the received message; And a printing means for color-coding and printing out the electronic message. 2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the host is an information processing device installed in a travel agency, and the message processing system is a personal computer device connected to the information processing device via a public line and installed in a ryokan. The message identification system according to claim 1, wherein 3. The type of the message is a message of reservation, change, or cancellation of a ryokan, and the identification unit is configured to identify the type. The printing unit is color-coded for each type. The message identification system according to claim 2, wherein the message identification system is configured to print. 4. The electronic message according to claim 1, wherein the identification unit detects a character indicating the type at a predetermined position in the electronic message to perform the identification. Identification system.